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February 22, 2012
Small entity discounts, overall fee increases and the feasibility of 12-month invalidity trials topped the agenda at yesterday’s virtual town hall meeting held by the USPTO
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February 22, 2012
The US government has invited brand owners and domain industry specialists to a meeting in Washington DC next week to focus on improving US anti-cybersquatting laws
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February 22, 2012
Twelve heads of government have called for urgent action to reform copyright in a letter to EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso
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February 22, 2012
French registry Afnic will introduce non-Latin characters in the six ccTLDs that it manages by July 2012, giving existing domain owners exclusive rights to take internationalised domain names (IDNs)
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February 22, 2012
ACTA, the controversial international anti-piracy and counterfeiting treaty, has hit another hurdle after the European Commission announced this morning that it would ask Europe’s Court of Justice to consider its legality
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February 21, 2012
More cases than ever were brought before Europe’s Court of Justice last year. Does that signal confidence of users or the over-complication of European law? Managing IP reports
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February 20, 2012
The UK government and search engines must do more to fight music piracy and promote legitimate content, Labour MP Harriet Harman said today
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February 20, 2012
Both operators and users of The Pirate Bay infringe copyrights owned by a range of music companies, a UK judge ruled today
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February 17, 2012
Attendees of the USPTO’s first roadshow on implementation of the America Invents Act expressed concerns about supplemental examination and pre-issuance submissions of prior art, among other topics
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February 17, 2012
Two websites alleged to be selling more than 400,000 infringed e-books were shut down after an international coalition of book publishers secured legal action in Ireland and Germany
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February 17, 2012
How closely have you been following this week’s IP news? Test your knowledge with five, quick questions
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February 17, 2012
Former USPTO commissioner for patents Bob Stoll told patent practitioners Thursday that “we’re taking a calculated risk” implementing the America Invents Act provisions without a guarantee of full funding for the Office
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February 17, 2012
In an exclusive interview, Russell Pangborn of Microsoft and Time Warner’s Fabricio Vayra reveal their strategies for new gTLDs, discuss the budget implications and explain why more detail is needed on trade mark protection
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February 16, 2012
The GNSO council has delayed voting on whether VeriSign should introduce a “thick” Whois model to its gTLD databases until Icann’s Costa Rica meeting in March
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February 16, 2012
An electric car, lunch at the Inn and excitement at the Applications Court - a day in the life of England & Wales High Court judge Mr Justice Arnold
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February 16, 2012
Internet companies have welcomed today’s Court of Justice ruling in Sabam v Netlog, which stated clearly that service providers cannot be required to install a content-filtering system
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